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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| Heavy Weather | 5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
| Get Rich Or Die Tryin' | 5 | 3.04 | +1.96 |
| La Revancha Del Tango | 5 | 3.04 | +1.96 |
| Oxygène | 5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
| Autobahn | 5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
| The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter | 4 | 2.15 | +1.85 |
| Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim | 5 | 3.26 | +1.74 |
| The Seldom Seen Kid | 5 | 3.26 | +1.74 |
| Brilliant Corners | 5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
| Ágætis Byrjun | 5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
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| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Stan Getz | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Steely Dan | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| R.E.M. | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Beatles | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
5-Star Albums (49)
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The Strokes
4/5
The Strokes' debut album immediately perfects a garage rock sound with raw and gritty guitar-work.
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AC/DC
4/5
Brian Johnson's first album with the band and the best
Kanye West
3/5
One of the best Hip Hop album of all time...
The Cure
5/5
This album is phenomenal. The Cure's masterpiece.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
The very best of the genre. My Favorite songs are Respect and I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
The Cars
5/5
The Cars' great debut album blended new wave & rock n' roll.
The Avalanches
4/5
An incredibly interesting piece of electronic music.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Everything But The Girl
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
One of the best albums of the 80s.
Dusty Springfield
4/5
It's a lovely album, an all time classic.
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Not really my kind of music, but extremely good compositions exist at th first half.
CHIC
4/5
Very influential and funky record.
Prince
4/5
This album is definitely an inconsistent one, but beautiful.
Prince
5/5
Prince at its best, great sound, great music.
Randy Newman
3/5
Probably Randy Newman's best album, sail away, is an excellent record.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Hendrix was so much more than a guitar pioneer.
Slayer
3/5
Its fast paced, energetic and heavy.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Solid album but not as Led Zeppelin IV.
The Yardbirds
3/5
The best Yardbirds album. Consistently good tunes and playing.
The Incredible String Band
4/5
A psychedelic folk album of pure sound of acoustic instruments, strings and human voices.
UB40
4/5
Brilliant debut album by UB40.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
the best funk rock album of all time.
The Crusaders
3/5
Joe Sample's band, I like him.
The Strokes
4/5
The Strokes' debut album immediately perfects a garage rock sound with raw and gritty guitar-work.
Talking Heads
4/5
One of the the classic Talking Heads' albums.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
A very good album with some of his best work in years.
Bad Company
4/5
Great solid classic hard rock songs that are easy to remember.
Suede
4/5
Suede's moment of brilliance amid apparent chaos in the band.
Keith Jarrett
5/5
The greatest improvised performance of all time.
Frank Sinatra
5/5
One of Sinatra's finest recordings.
Morrissey
3/5
Morrissey's solo debut pretty much carried on where the Smiths left off.
Elvis Presley
4/5
The first rock and roll album that brought rock 'n' roll to the masses.
Green Day
3/5
In terms of pop punk this is a good record.
Iggy Pop
3/5
Great hugely Bowie-influenced record.
Supergrass
4/5
A brillant brit-pop, including the hit "Alright".
Happy Mondays
4/5
This is the album to play to anyone who needs to understand the "Manchester sound."
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Very good unknown album for all smooth/groove lovers.
Orbital
4/5
Good but only on the dancefloor.
Tears For Fears
4/5
One of the best pop albums ever made.
Black Sabbath
4/5
While not quite as popular as paranoid, it is just as good, and a bit more experimental.
Sam Cooke
4/5
What an incredible gig!
Ray Charles
4/5
Not my favorite of his, but really good.
Kraftwerk
4/5
Ahead of it's time. Great!
Arcade Fire
4/5
Nowhere near the level of Funeral, but better than Neon Bible.
Joni Mitchell
3/5
It is one of her best albums.
Roxy Music
3/5
Their best album obviously and just incredibly fun and innovative.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Just a great classic rock record with a great mix of new and old.
Lou Reed
4/5
Lou Reeds best album for me.
King Crimson
5/5
A fantastic debut record that is amongst one of the greatest albums of the prog rock genre.
John Lennon
4/5
Probably John's poppiest and most accessible solo record.
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Amazing jazz infused beats with next level rapping.
Boston
5/5
This album opens with two of the best rock songs ever recorded.
The Verve
3/5
Unforgettable album, a britpop masterpiece, not recognized by many.
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Beautiful voice, wonderful mixture of post-rock with folk and singer-songwriter music.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Fulfillingness first finale, always seems to be the forgotten album in that stunning run of LP's in the early/mid seventies, and in truth, it's not quite as brilliant as those other records.
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
This is an incredible accomplishment from The Smashing Pumpkins with them creating one of the greatest double albums of all time.
Green Day
4/5
It’s rock, it’s punk, but it’s some of the most eclectic rock music.
The Police
4/5
Great playing by all the musicians, though.
Grant Lee Buffalo
4/5
Music played with passion, honesty and simplicity.
Barry Adamson
3/5
Very movie music like album, Very eclectic choice for the 1001 Albums.
Muddy Waters
3/5
This was a very solid comeback album for Muddy Waters
The Rolling Stones
5/5
It has some of the greatest moments the Rolling Stones ever created making it an essential part of their discography.
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
A musically impressive album with fantastic storytelling that runs through the whole release.
Ray Price
3/5
Big voice, big country music.
ZZ Top
4/5
My all time favorite blues album. It's got rhythm. It's got blues. It's got boogie.
Nina Simone
4/5
Nina Simone is to my ears the greatest vocalist to have ever done it and this album is a prime example of that.
CHIC
4/5
Nice grooves and very listenable.
Motörhead
3/5
A heavy rock/metal classic.
Public Enemy
4/5
A political hip-hop classic.
Nirvana
5/5
This is very solid grunge album, probably the best in the genre.
King Crimson
4/5
A difficult album to get into but worth it. It's excellent.
The Who
4/5
Very good classic rock album, excellent tunes.
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
Brilliant album with a strong influence on punk and "Whiskey Woman" in it.
Calexico
4/5
The best from Calexico! Love the atmosphere.
Radiohead
4/5
Excellent mix of traditional and modern instrumentation.
Herbie Hancock
5/5
An amazing jazz funk record.
The White Stripes
4/5
Incredible guitar playing mixed with infectious vocal melodies proves to be all that is needed to create a classic.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5/5
Great jazz album, perfect vibe and catchy melodys.
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Great voice, gentle singing and on this album she shifted to more enigmatic sounding instrumentals.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Great iconic album, even 40 years after his first album he still makes great and relevant music in 2002, amazing.
The Offspring
4/5
A good hard rock record.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
This is a much more bluesy attempt from the Rolling Stones who do a great job of mixing it into their classic style.
Paul Weller
4/5
Still probably Weller's best solo record.
Aerosmith
3/5
You can definitely see how influential this album was on hard rock and heavy metal in the 80s and even the 90s grunge, alt-rock and alt-metal genres.
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
Maybe the most important Salsa record ever made. A cooperation between two of the most important figures in the genre: Rubén Blades and Willie Colón.
The Kinks
4/5
This is an album that is as British as they come but also so much fun to listen to.
Jacques Brel
3/5
Nice 60s soul, good lyrics and theatral vocal in french.
PJ Harvey
4/5
I get the feeling she is influenced some by Patti Smith
Deep Purple
4/5
This album has a classic sound and outstanding songwriting.
Radiohead
5/5
In Rainbows is a sonic masterpiece and one of the most sensational headphones albums I can reference.
Jean-Michel Jarre
5/5
One of the true pioneers of the electronic genre.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
They'd reach their peak on Cosmo's Factory, but this album still has plenty of great tracks like green river and lodi.
The Charlatans
3/5
Oasis-like 90's indie rock/Britpop akbum.
The Waterboys
3/5
Very good album timeless hasn't lost its traditional music charm.
Traffic
4/5
A great album early '70s British rock album that is strong from start to finish.
Pink Floyd
5/5
To me this is probably the best concept album ever created.
Fugees
4/5
One of the better hip hop albums with enough pop sensibility.
Otis Redding
4/5
This album is everything I found to be great in soul music.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Coming after the blockbuster success of 1977's Rumours, Tusk is a very weird yet highly interesting and experimental pop/rock album.
Deerhunter
3/5
Halcyon Digest is an album you don’t want to end as it’s roots within dream pop and shoegaze mixed with ethereal indie guitar music send you into a beautiful trance.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
One of the best records of one of the best recorded voices in music history.
Elbow
5/5
The album has magnificent production with a sound like Coldplay and Sting.
James Brown
4/5
Solid live record, great vocals and energy.
R.E.M.
5/5
It is a general consensus among music critics that "Automatic for the People" is one of REM's best albums.
Wilco
3/5
A solid album with some truly brilliant highlights.
R.E.M.
4/5
This is another solid alt rock album by this band.
Culture Club
4/5
Strong vocals, songwriting, upbeat. pop culture.
Frank Ocean
4/5
Frank Ocean probably the artist of the decade for his great production and nice range of vocals.
ZZ Top
5/5
ZZ Top acending to the top of their carreer with a mix between blues and rock. This album contains the top hits "Sharp Dressed Man", "Gimme All Your Lovin" and "Legs".
Michael Jackson
5/5
The best album ever, the quality, the videos, songs, everything on this album is a true masterpiece
Tangerine Dream
4/5
One of the best albums from 1974 and Tangerine Dream´s best.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Ragged Glory is back to basics collaboration with Crazy Horse.
The Doors
5/5
A couple of good tracks and then just some derivative blues.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
A stepping stone to the even greater Back to Black.
XTC
3/5
The production is superb throughout the whole album.
Travis
4/5
One of the last great pop albums of the nineties.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
This might be Springsteen's most consistent work with every song on here being good or better.
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
This is an album filled with rich and grand instrumentation.
LL Cool J
4/5
It's got a lot of hip hop classics.
Fairport Convention
4/5
One of the best albums from the classic Fairport Convention line up.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Creedence project with it being full of great songs and brilliant instrumental work.
Blondie
4/5
Perhaps the greatest new wave album of all time.
Spiritualized
4/5
A fantastic record from Spiritualized that is packed full of beauty and quality.
Metallica
3/5
Good union between the symphonic and the distorsions of metal, a nice experiment.
Linkin Park
4/5
Best album of all time in it's genre.
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Great psychedelic pop/rock and White Rabbit sounds like a masterpiece.
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
Very strong live album that is commonly recognized as one of the best of all time.
Kraftwerk
5/5
An iconic and memorable masterpiece.
The Verve
4/5
A great album. Bitter Sweet Symphony may quite possibly be my favorite song of all time.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
the most important classic album in music history.
Coldplay
4/5
Coldplay's masterpiece.
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Cool jazz. Great groove running through this record.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
This is one of Stevie Wonder's most consistently great records.
Kate Bush
3/5
A great and cohesive record filled to the brim with beautiful tracks.
The Auteurs
3/5
A good pop album is in dire need.
Eagles
5/5
This album has this one great track which is Hotel California.
The Smiths
4/5
This is a great lyrical record with Morrissey penning some of his best lyrics across this release.
Tom Waits
4/5
This album is sooo good, he took everything that was great on Swordfishtrombones and improved it.
Oasis
4/5
One of the strongest debuts of all time.
Alanis Morissette
3/5
One of the 90's best albums, with great songs and songwriting.
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Arctic Monkeys make their debut with this album full of energy.
B.B. King
4/5
Marvellous album by the King of the Blues.
Weather Report
5/5
A classic jazz fusion album from the 1970's. great musicianship especially from Jaco Pastorius and Joe Zawinul.
Thelonious Monk
5/5
A cornerstone record in any jazz collection.
Spiritualized
4/5
One of the most cohesive and mind-blowing album listening experiences to listen to.
Tim Buckley
4/5
The jazz tendencies continue throughout the album and make for a great departure from his previously folk-inflected albums.
4/5
Great album, not a single bad track on the album.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
A good album, gives indication of what is to come in coming years.
Willie Nelson
4/5
Willie Nelson is maybe the most important American artist of the last century.
Beatles
4/5
Good album from the Beatles. Underrated by beatles fans.
The Cure
4/5
Last album of trilogy and it’s another classic.
Talking Heads
4/5
Great debut for Talking Heads, lyrics are insane and instrumentals are mostly great.
Hole
4/5
Fantastic alternative rock album!
Frank Zappa
4/5
nstrumentally, this is probably Frank Zappa's strongest release including everything he did with the Mother Of Invention.
Stan Getz
5/5
An undeniably cool album, especially with Stan Getz on sax and João Gilberto singing.
George Michael
4/5
Album of the year at the Grammys in 1989.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Good, entertaining rap album with creative use of samples it was ahead of its time.
50 Cent
5/5
Fantastic beats, Great flow, Great production.
The Killers
4/5
I agree that it would be difficult for any artist to follow the excellent first 5-6 tracks. Each one is lightning in a bottle.
Funkadelic
4/5
Cool funk psychedelic album!
AC/DC
5/5
Another great AC/DC album packed full of raw energy and power that is waiting to be enjoyed.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
One of Curtis Mayfield's best albums.
Amy Winehouse
5/5
The tragedy of so short a recording career and a lack of material is encapsulated in this, her best release.
Mylo
4/5
It's true, EDM destroyed rock'n'roll.
Sigur Rós
5/5
An absolutely beautiful listen from start to finish. This album is one of those unique records that feels like it belongs in a genre/category of its own as it is that unique and special.
Muddy Waters
5/5
Muddy Waters was one of the originators of the Chicago blues, the hot, beefy, electrified blues.
Beach House
4/5
The perfect dream pop album.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
This is almost the ultimate border of creativity.
Doves
4/5
What makes this such a great album is the atmospherics produced.
Chicago
4/5
Rock meets big band and it works. Excellent...
The Who
4/5
Influential concept album.
John Coltrane
5/5
A spiritual experience from beginning to end, John Coltrane’s masterpiece.
Sonic Youth
4/5
This is as close to perfect noise rock ever got. The best Sonic Youth album.
Giant Sand
3/5
A different and alternative approach to country music.
Miles Davis
5/5
Superb jazz masterpiece!
Stan Getz
5/5
Album of the year at the 1963 Grammys.
The Beach Boys
3/5
One of the most beautiful album of the 70's.
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Perfection of the expression of the soul.
John Grant
4/5
John Grant's debut solo album is one of the best albums of the last years.
Marvin Gaye
4/5
This is one of the sexiest albums I've ever listened to.
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Orchestral rock with bongos and horns, it's a special audio experience.
Black Sabbath
5/5
Still one of the greatest albums of all time.
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Incredible production and fully realised ideas make this a must listen.
Steely Dan
5/5
Good album, nice introduction to jazz rock.
Lana Del Rey
3/5
Good album. top quality vocals in White Dress.
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Solid album by the blues master.
Little Richard
5/5
Incredibly this debut album from Rock n Pioneer Little Richard released in 1957 would be his biggest hit and highest charting album.
Elton John
4/5
Magnificent singing, the best Elton album and his top songs are on here.
Beck
4/5
It's a collage of everything Beck ever experienced and made his own thing.
Steely Dan
5/5
ISteely Dan Band's magnific debut album.
U2
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Before Nirvana, there was Pixies, and their breakthrough album Doolittle would inspire everyone that picked up a guitar, especially the rock bands of the 90s, like Nirvana, Radiohead, Weezer, Pavement.
David Bowie
4/5
This is a fantastic album, full of beauty, considerations of mortality.
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
This is a great record! Classic songwriting and Ella's vocals make this one of the greatest albums of the era.
Beatles
4/5
This is their most expansive and experimental album The Beatles have ever created.
Neil Young
4/5
One of Neil Young’s most Neil Young albums.
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Fantastic timeless rap/rock fusion album.
5/5
Most of the songs here have nice, catchy melodies and quite good lyrics.
Black Sabbath
4/5
The beginning of something very special, although overall this isn't a particularly special album.
Jane Weaver
4/5
One of those albums you can put on any time and will always sound right.
Alice Cooper
4/5
A very amusing record that works better as a concept than a showcase for individual songs.
Cream
4/5
The best Cream album, sounds very influential.
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
This is a composition of true musical genius that you fall in love with the more times you listen to it.
Blur
4/5
Title track is absolutely amazing, the pinnacle of britpop.
Paul Simon
3/5
Solid album, the songs are brilliantly written.
Tortoise
4/5
Tortoise puts out music that is both timeless and contemporary.
The Isley Brothers
4/5
One of the great rock/soul albums.
Queen
4/5
An album of many sides and genres mixed well.
New Order
3/5
Pretty cut and dry 80's alt-pop.
The Prodigy
4/5
One of the top 5 electronic albums.
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
This album blends a lot of influences from rock to soul.
Arcade Fire
4/5
Arcade Fire are just the masters of Indie Rock Music.
Erykah Badu
4/5
One of the great r'n'b albums.
Lorde
4/5
Lorde cements herself at the top of modern day pop with this album.
Beatles
5/5
One of the greatest and most important albums of all time.
Kings of Leon
4/5
Really enjoyed listening to this album.
4/5
One of the greatest concept albums of all time.
Kate Bush
5/5
This album is amazing, it perfectly balances pop and art side of Kate Bush.
U2
4/5
A very good record which features a pretty interesting sound for U2.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Released in 1996 at the zenith of Brit-Pop mania Manic Street Preachers were seemingly the ugly buck toothed cousins of the poster-boys Oasis and Blur.
Queen
5/5
This isn't Queen's most consistent record but it definitely has some of their greatest ever songs.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Overall a very consistent album, one of the best of Springsteen's catalog.
The Clash
5/5
The best punk album ever made.
Gotan Project
5/5
Best neotango album.
Anthrax
4/5
One of the greatest thrash albums ever released hands down.
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Joan Armatrading is a great unknown to me and I think for most people.
Janelle Monáe
4/5
An incredibly consistent yet varied album musically.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
4/5
Winner of the album of the year at the Grammys in 1970.
Tom Tom Club
3/5
It's really fun funk/new wave. Genius of Love is an absolute classic, one of the best dance songs ever.
This is a pretty great album.
Bob Dylan
5/5
A wonderful album full of folk rock! Bob Dylan at his best right here.
The Doors
4/5
An album of absolute supremeness.
Kanye West
4/5
Its alright by Kanye standards, which means a really good album by normal standards.
Bob Dylan
4/5
This album is recognised as the first and the best double album in rock music history.
Madonna
4/5
Amazing album that redefined pop at the time!
Jamiroquai
3/5
Rich layers of instrumention, enjoyable if not all that impressive.
The Jam
4/5
Something between punk rock and new wave.
Depeche Mode
5/5
Classic album of the 80s. Depeche Mode´s best album of the 80s, just one step behind to their masterpiece Violator (1990).
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Fully formed “debut” this is one of my favorite albums Bob Marley was associated with The Wailers include Bunny Wailer & Peter Tosh.
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Slick, pretty and very mellow, a fine record.